How much revenue did GeckoShop make?

$26k–$70k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did GeckoShop sell?

Q: How many copies did GeckoShop sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 383 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $26k–$70k after Steam's cut $47k–$108k before the cut; from 383 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left GeckoShop out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including GeckoShop's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 76k–140k

best case 279k (Tiny Pasture)

Games like GeckoShop

The middle of these games

≈ 76k–140k copies

≈ $208k–$901k after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Tiny Pasture at ≈ 213k–346k copies, ≈ $350k–$942k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 913 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 348 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Farming Sim, priced around $6.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Megaquarium 2018	Est. copies ≈ 115k–186k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $788k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.3M before the cut	$24.99	4k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CasualSimulation
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